As I’ve reported several times in the past week (most recently http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130522/BLOGS/305229976/-1/blogs01
Considering the feverish zeal with which Obama-haters are pushing their conspiracy theories these days, I guess THIS KIND OF [...]]]>
HERE‘s a great collection of arguments to use against the disinformation campaigns [...]]]>
Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein WRITES HERE of a fascinating study conducted by Philip Fernbach [...]]]>
As you may already know, some of the vermin on the far, far right of the American political spectrum have been peddling theories that [...]]]>
THIS is pretty interesting:
http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130521/BLOGS/305219976/-1/blogs01
Political analyst Charlie Cook, who’s widely respected in both parties, http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130521/BLOGS/305219977/-1/blogs01
David Sirota NAILS IT:
Was the severe [...]]]>
The man SAYS the GOP needs greater diversity:
At a sold-out New Hampshire Republican Party dinner [...]]]>
Why am I not surprised that the silly 1984 fantasy “Red Dawn” (above) tops THIS LIST?
http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130521/BLOGS/305219980/-1/blogs01
Two major public-opinion polls released this week have lots of good news for President Obama and lots of bad news for the Republican Party.
The first of these is the CNN/ORC survey, which [...]]]>
“Hypocrites” is the one word that comes to mind in light of http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130520/BLOGS/305209965/-1/blogs01
Enjoy!
Each year, roughly 800,000 people are arrested for marijuana offenses. That amounts to one arrest every 42 seconds, which represents a great strain on the criminal justice system.
The irony in all of this is that [...]]]>
The Republican Party doesn’t often field black candidates for public office, but when it does, they’re usually wingnuts of the first order.
My favorite example is Alan Keyes, who was recruited from [...]]]>
Writing in Scientific American, Patrick Mustain imagines THIS LETTER [...]]]>
Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s detachment from reality is getting worse, as we see HERE:
James Rosen (above), who worked at WREX-TV in Rockford for a while in the 1990s, is http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130519/BLOGS/305199987/-1/blogs01
Most of us rabid political partisans, whether lefties or righties, take special pleasure in citing what we see as the excessive rhetoric of certain people on the other side of the spectrum.
And so it is with me when [...]]]>
The RESULTS of a new CNN/ORC poll are mostly good news for [...]]]>
Stephanie Koontz, one of my favorite social historians, WARNS HERE about the potential pitfalls of [...]]]>
Despite suggestions from such conservatives as Charles Krauthammer and Newt Gingrich to temper their [...]]]>
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, whose skillful way with words usually exceeds her grasp of the facts, waxed indignant the other [...]]]>
A Facebook friend of mine has dug up THIS WONDERFUL STORY from four years ago:
One morning back in 1977, I was having coffee with a certain prominent public official (an appointee, not a politician) whose judgment in most matters I usually respected.
Our conversation eventually turned to an upcoming local [...]]]>
Most Americans are not following the controversies regarding the Internal Revenue Service and the Benghazi tragedy with especially intense interest, as we see http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130517/BLOGS/305179965/-1/blogs01
Ordinarily, I like to know what’s going on in the world. But I’m glad I didn’t know about http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130517/BLOGS/305179992/-1/blogs01
The right-wing noise machine has strongly implied, and falsely so, that the Obama administration doctored government emails concerning the Benghazi tragedy.
In truth, however, it was [...]]]>
It’s probably safe to say that many Americans think the current “scandal” at the Internal Revenue Service is about who has to pay how much in taxes.
The image above, which I ran across on Facebook this morning, is based on an http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130517/BLOGS/305179995/-1/blogs01
The Washington Post editorial board, which is not always as liberal as some conservatives seem to think it is, makes good sense in http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130516/BLOGS/305169960/-1/blogs01
Media critic Bob Somerby (above), a liberal, is out with a snarky attack on MSNBC pundits Chris Matthews and Lawrence O’Donnell for their ignorance of the details regarding the so-called Benghazi scandal. [...]]]>
I don’t know that I fully agree with Ezra Klein on THIS STUFF, but he’s one of the [...]]]>
One of my pipe dreams in recent years is to hire myself out as an independent consultant under the name of Dr. No.
You see, the problem in most organizations of appreciable size is [...]]]>
Given the awesome size of the Lone Star State, in population as well as area, http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130516/BLOGS/305169994/-1/blogs01
When the scandal at the Internal Revenue Service first came to light, my immediate reaction was that “heads should roll” (see http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130515/BLOGS/305159966/-1/blogs01
THIS is too, too funny:
PPP’s [...]]]>
Televangelist Pat Robertson, who frequently claims to have his own pipeline to God’s thoughts on [...]]]>
Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei (above) of Politico want you to know THIS:
The town is turning [...]]]>
Can you say “hypocrisy,” boys and girls?
HERE‘s a good example of [...]]]>
http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130515/BLOGS/305159995/-1/blogs01
A funny thing about problems in the executive branch of the federal government — some of which are actual scandals — is that they don’t always badly hurt a president’s [...]]]>
Click here to view the embedded video.
... http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130514/BLOGS/305149959/-1/blogs01
While pundits and politicians on the left and right alike (including me, as evidenced HERE [...]]]>
Alex Seitz-Wald wonders whether Barack Obama has suffered the equivalent of Lyndon Johnson’s http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130514/BLOGS/305149985/-1/blogs01
Political satirist Stephen Colbert, who’s made a career of parodying right-wing pundits, SAID [...]]]>
As a long-time reader of the satirical newspaper and Web site known as The Onion (see HERE), I was glad to stumble upon The Duffel Blog, a site that offers the same [...]]]>
For an already besieged President Obama, THIS STORY could not have come along at a worse time:
http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130513/BLOGS/305139956/-1/blogs01
Make of THIS what you will:
After ABC [...]]]>
{NOTE: IT TURNS OUT THAT THIS STORY ISN’T TRUE. I PICKED IT UP ON A FACEBOOK POST LINKING TO A STORY FROM A GAY WEB SITE IN EUROPE, WHICH, I’VE BELATEDLY LEARNED, HAD [...]]]>
HERE‘s the story:
President Barack Obama [...]]]>
What does THIS say about our priorities?
You may have heard that the highest-paid [...]]]>
Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas make a few good points HERE:
Let’s [...]]]>
One of the great unanswered questions of our time is why the major television networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox — so often feel the need to book Republican Sen. John [...]]]>
President Obama is scheduled to hold a news conference at 10:15 (CDT) this morning, and he should use the occasion to roundly condemn recently disclosed practices at the Internal [...]]]>
Here are the myths:
The White House And State Department Edited References To Terrorism Out Of Talking Points For Political Purposes.
Benghazi Whistleblower Gregory Hicks Is Being [...]]]>
Frank Bruni OFFERS EXAMPLES of the American public’s curious detachment from certain facts:
Since the end of World War II, every U.S. president who has served more than four years has experienced significant difficulties in his second term.
Harry Truman’s problems were such that he left [...]]]>
No matter that the targets were groups I consider wacky and bad for America, http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130512/BLOGS/305129998/-1/blogs01
Ordinarily, I don’t like to speak ill of the dead, especially since they can’t defend themselves.
Nor do I necessarily agree with certain theories advanced by Marie Burns of the Web [...]]]>
Glenn Kessler, the fact-checker at the Washington Post, has more than a few juicy [...]]]>
The terrorism, said Falwell, was God’s punishment of America for sins of “the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way–all of them who [...]]]>
Let’s see what the global-warming deniers can make of THIS:
http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130510/BLOGS/305109966/-1/blogs01
Already infamous for his especially kooky style of global-warming denialism (see http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130510/BLOGS/305109967/-1/blogs01
Click here to view the embedded video.
. [...]]]>
There must be something in the water that makes some Texans so strange.
If Republicans think their bogus Benghazi scandal will serve to render Hillary Clinton beatable in the 2016 presidential, which seems to be the principal purpose of this exercise of late, they had better think again.
I [...]]]>
The current political controversy over last year’s tragedy in Benghazi, Libya, brings to mind an even greater tragedy of nearly 30 years ago in that same part of the world.
On Oct. 23, 1983, a [...]]]>
Four months ago, I reported http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130509/BLOGS/305099990/-1/blogs01
You’ve heard of love-hate relationships, right?
HERE‘s a classic [...]]]>
It speaks ill of the so-called serious news media in this country when a political satirist does a better job than all of them in putting a controversy in proper perspective.
Such was the case last night when it took Jon Stewart a mere 10 [...]]]>
At this writing, a U.S. House committee hearing on the Benghazi tragedy has yet to live up to the breathless hype with which it was promoted in advance by Republicans.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last Sept. 11 was “a failure of leadership” on the part of the Obama administration, especially since it was the anniversary of [...]]]>
It should come as no big surprise that former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (above) won a congressional election yesterday in a solidly Republican district, but the national media are playing the story as [...]]]>
You can’t make up stuff like THIS:
http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130507/BLOGS/305079974/-1/blogs01
What is it about today’s Republicans that makes them think of Ronald Reagan’s presidency in terms that are completely at odds with the reality of it? [...]]]>
HERE‘s a clever scheme perpetrated by Corporate America:
http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130507/BLOGS/305079996/-1/blogs01
The story is HERE:
Pat Brady [above], the chairman [...]]]>
Here’s the text of George H.W. Bush’s letter of resignation from the National Rifle Association in 1995:
Dear Mr. Washington [then-NRA President Tom Washington],
I was outraged when, [...]]]>
Back in the day, the message in the image above was the mantra of most right-wingers in America.
Today, the far right sounds like http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130506/BLOGS/305069993/-1/blogs01
You don’t ordinarily expect http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130506/BLOGS/305069994/-1/blogs01
An editorial that NAILS IT:
http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130506/BLOGS/305069995/-1/blogs01
Don’t tell your Republican friends about this.
It will only confuse them.... http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130506/BLOGS/305069996/-1/blogs01
Jeff Biggers paints an UGLY PICTURE of the Prairie State:
Whether she runs for governor or not, Illinois [...]]]>
Niall Ferguson (above), a Scottish-born right-wing history professor at Harvard University, touched off a firestorm of criticism the other day when he said John Maynard Keynes’ economic philosophy was [...]]]>
http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130504/BLOGS/305049984/-1/blogs01
When they’re not peddling suspicions that Barack Obama is a Muslim, the right-wing media are eager to portray the president as godless and anti-religion — if not downright satanic.
Such [...]]]>
Jonathan Bernstein has the story HERE:
Floyd Norris has http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130503/BLOGS/305039966/-1/blogs01
What is it about some people that makes them suckers for almost every bit of nonsense they hear from the right-wing noise machine (see image above)?
Even some of my Facebook friends [...]]]>
Poor John McCain!
His efforts to produce a Benghazi scandal are as pathetic and futile as his bid for the presidency was.
Steve Benenhttp://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130503/BLOGS/305039991/-1/blogs01
Wow! The best casting director in Hollywood couldn’t have come up with a better stereotype than http://www.eldoradotimes.com/article/20130503/BLOGS/305039993/-1/blogs01
Upon further reflection, I have more thoughts to share regarding a recent poll (